Gadgets from Used Whisky Casks
Reincarnation. Transmigration. Metempsychosis. The harsh concept of life after death. The belief that, somehow, part of our ephemeral being will continue to exist even after our last breath. The key […]
Reincarnation. Transmigration. Metempsychosis. The harsh concept of life after death. The belief that, somehow, part of our ephemeral being will continue to exist even after our last breath. The key […]
Manners make a man. This is what the British writer William Horman wrote in his book Vulgaria in 1519 – a compendium of quotes and proverbs from his day. In […]
Hiraeth. I couldn’t start this post any other way, but with ‘hiraeth’. The Welsh equivalent of our untranslatable Portuguese word ‘saudade’. Hiraeth has a little extra meaning – it […]
When I was born, my dad had a gold Puma car. From my earliest, tender childhood years I loved that car. My dad probably did too, because he kept it […]
On a winter night in Oakland 1905, an eleven-year-old boy named Frank Epperson accidentally left a glass of water, soft drink powder and a stick he had used to mix […]
Last year I had the opportunity to do something I would never have imagined – to taste a whisky more than fifty years old. It was the last day of […]